Product Designer - Coaching Tools
Location: US, NE, Lincoln
Department: Product Team

Company profile:
Hudl is a sports + technology company.We create software that helps coaches win, athletes look like pros, and recruiters find more talent.

Job description:
What is Hudl?Hudl is a software company that makes sports video analysis tools for coaches and athletes. Teams upload their game film to our site, study it, and "break it down" by adding text notes, ink telestrations, and tagged metadata.Coaches then share the edited segments of video with groups of players on their team. Athletes can consume the annotated video on their iOS and Android devices throughout the week in preparation for their next game. If an athlete notices a great play, he or she can highlight it to appear on a public profile for fans, parents, and recruiters to see.What do Product Designers do at Hudl?We make the above process as headache-free as possible. We lead small, cross-functional teams in creating and shipping clear, delightful user experiences. Here’s how we do it.First, designers perform user research with coaches of all sports to understand latent needs beyond just the basics of what they say they want. Designers learn why first-hand. There’s no requirements doc handed down from on high. Next, they rough out concepts to test with developers, QA, and their project manager. They sketch, they mock, and they prototype the key interactions. And often, they throw big pieces out when it doesn't click in a user study.Once the concepts do start clicking, Product Designers start crafting the interface first (HTML &amp; CSS for web products, Interface Builder for iOS, etc.). They team up with a developer to improve the code and get it wired into the back-end systems. Finally, they ensure the visuals are consistent throughout and match our brand styles.But, designers don’t stop after the first release. They work closely with PM’s as we roll-out improvements so that we can refine it as the product gets real-world use. We can selectively enable new features to small groups of coaches and athletes to validate that we’re on the right track.

Requirements:
Practically, all this means you carry the squad with beautiful visual design, thoughtful interaction design and production-ready HTML and CSS (Sass, actually). Those are the non-negotiable requirements. We also expect that you:Excel in giving and receiving respectfully blunt feedback and critique.Have strong beliefs, loosely held, about what’s best for the product.Understand that technical, business, and design constraints factor into every product decision.Know how and when to tactfully say, “No."Are unafraid shipping small, quick experiments to validate your assumptions and opinions.Think that great copywriting is an essential part of creating clear user interfaces.Consciously choose the best medium and fidelity to convey your ideas at each stage of a project (not every project goes sketch, Photoshop, HTML).Can tell the story of a product or service with sharp copy and crisp imagery—people get fired up after your presentations.

Benefits:
TelecommutingWe love our remote workers. Currently, about 25% of our product team works remotely so we're set up really well for it. But we can only hire if you live/work in or are moving to California, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, Nebraska or the United Kingdom. We pay for travel back to HQ in Lincoln, NE office every 6-8 weeks.Conference TravelHudl foots the bill up to $1,500 annually for you to travel to a professional conference of your choice. We know the value of meeting up with other smart product-oriented designersUnlimited VacationTracking hours doesn't make sense in our line of work. We trust our teams to get it done, so everyone can take as much time as they need to get out of the office and recharge.Paid Health InsuranceHudl covers all of the premiums for health insurance, plus half for spouses and dependents.